Letters: Election 2012

Had Romney won, he would have expected all Americans to line up and support the decision of the electorate and follow the leadership of the President to do the job he is elected to perform for all Americans. President Obama expects the same and we should deliver it issues are the same, the solutions are different but aimed against the same common problems.

President Obama echoed the words of his opponent and committed to work more closely across the aisle. That doesn’t mean that anyone should give up on their ideas, but it does mean people need to compromise and that means both sides have to give something up, otherwise it is obstruction. So everyone, please take a deep breath and remember what the candidates said must happen after this election. All Americans must engage and participate. We can’t go home and wait for jobs to suddenly appear. That’s not how it works. We must work together and if Congress begins misbehaving, we must help them to focus.

If this op-ed page continues to argue hate and forecast doom and gloom, stop reading those words, and focus on helping to build a better America instead of how to block positive progress. Thoughtful Americans of all political persuasions understand that all Americans must actively engage for America to become great again, we cannot have Congress wait around for another four years obstructing policies and programs that we need to recover. And we will be watching when in two years a majority of house representatives will be up for election, and we will remember who helped, who obstructed and vote accordingly! – Fred Janczyn, La Mesa

I have been reading with deep sorrow and sadness, the many letters and comments being written and sent to the U-T, by those who voted for Governor Romney. They contain such terrible and nasty remarks about President Obama and I just had to reply to them.

I am an 89-year-“young” World War II veteran, having enlisted in the Army in 1942. After being trained as a radio technician. I was sent to the Asia-Pacific area with nine others to build radio stations, which we learned later were to be used to bring over the B-25 and B-29 aircraft for the bombing of Japan. The two years I spent on the many different Islands fighting not only the Japanese, but the various “diseases” that came with it, was not in vain. We won this war and because we did, these people who probably were not even born yet, are angry, frustrated and continue to state that President Obama will lead our wonderful U.S. to “destruction” or words to that effect.

I would first like to remind those who are unaware, that our beloved U.S. after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, came very close to being invaded by the Japanese, who fortunately for us, did not follow up on their cowardly attack and gave us the time we needed to get our armies together and beat the [heck] out of them. Think about this my dear fellow citizens – instead of being “upset” at having Obama as your President for another four years, you might today be under the whip of some Japanese warlords and/or a Hitler regime. Don’t laugh at what I am saying, but read some of the literature relating to these facts as they unfolded during the immediate aftermath of Pearl Harbor.